How to output colored text to a Linux terminal?

Here we will see how to print some lines into the linux terminal with some color. Here we are doing anything special into C++ code. We are just using some linux terminal commands to do this. The command for this kind of output is like below.

\033[1;31m Sample Text \033[0m

There are some codes for text styles and colors. These are listed below.

Some additional options are like below −

Example

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
main() {
   cout << "\033[1;31mThis is bold red text\033[0m\n";
   cout << "\033[;32mGreen Text\033[0m\n";
   cout << "\033[4;33mYellow underlined text\033[0m\n";
   cout << "\033[;34mBlue text\033[0m\n";
}

Output

Karthikeya Boyini

Published on 03-May-2019 07:04:11